Popper.



PATENTED 00T. ll, 1904.

E. H.' BARTON.V

POPPBR.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 28, 190s.

NO MODEL.

Patented. October 11, 1904.

* UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD H. BARTON, OF STURGIS, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF THREE- FOURTHS TOWILLIAM T.l FAVORITE AND CLARENCE V. SCHER- MERHORN, Y OF STURGIS,MICHIGAN.

POPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 771,893, dated October11, 1904.

Application filed January 28, 1903. Serial No. 140,914. (No model.)

To all whom, it muy concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD H. BARTON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Sturgis, in the county of St. Joseph and-State of Michigan,haveinvented a new and useful Popper, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates more particularly-to that class of corn-popperswhich are placed upoi a stove or over a fire and are operated by han Itis the object 'to provide a simple structure which will husband the heatand in which seasoning material may be placed, so that it willthoroughly permeate the corn during the popping operation.

It is also an object to provide novel means whereby the chai andunpopped corn may be separated from that which is popped, said meansserving to hold the latter in the popper and being easily released toopen the popper for the purpose of removing the separated and poppedkernels.

The vpreferred form of construction by which these objects areaccomplished is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, where- Figure1 is a perspective View of a popper constructed in accordance with thepresent invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view through thesame. Fig. 3 is a crosssectional view taken on the' line 3 3 of Fig. 2,and Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view taken on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2.

Similar reference-numerals indicate corre- .sponding parts in all thefigures of the drawings.

In the embodiment illustrated a receptacle 10 is employed, which isrectangular in form and preferablyl constructed of sheet metal, thewalls being imperforate and having outstanding beads 11 at their upperedges, a wire rimpiece 12 being passed through these beads and servingto strengthen the upper portions of the walls. A handle 13 is secured toone end of the receptacle and is formed of sheet metal bent to tubularform and split at one end to provide a plurality of fingers 14, whichare bent outwardly and riveted, as shown at 15, to the adjacent end walloi' the receptacle.

An imperforate cover 16 is slidably mounted upon the upper portion ofthe receptacle 10, and to this end the side edges 17 of said cover arebent downwardly and inwardly to form iianges which engage over the beads11 of the side walls. The inner end of the cover projects, as shown at18, over the handle 13 and is provided with a keeper in the form of astirrup 19, that slidably embraces the handle. An upstandingfinger-piece 20 is also secured to this projecting end, saidlinger-piece and stirrup being connected by a rivet 21, that passesthrough both and also through the cover. The opposite end of the covercarries a pivoted latch 22, which is arranged to engage over the endbead, and thus hold the cover in its closed position. Another cover,which is perforate and is designated by the reference-numeral 23, ispivoted to the front end of the receptacle' by means of a rod 24, theends of which are passed through the side Walls of said receptacle andare bent at right angles, as shown at 25, whereby the rod is heldagainst displacement. The side edges of this cover rest against theinner faces of the inclined walls ofthe receptacle, and in this mannerthe cover isy held in horizontal position. In practice the said cover isin the form of a comparatively coarse-mesh wire screen and constitutesa. separator which will permit the passage of the chaff and unpoppedcorn and will retain the properly-popped kernels. By referring to Fig. 2it will be seen that this perforate cover or separator terminates shortof the rear end of the receptacle and only covers about two-thirds ofthe top.

The popping operation is performed in substantially the usual manner,with the exception that the seasoning material is placed directly in thereceptacle with the corn, and the imperforate cover is placed in itsclosed position, as shown in Fig. 2. As a result the heat will beconserved, and,furthermore,the melted butter or other similar materialemployed cannot spatter over the stove. After the corn has been poppedthe cover 16 is partly withdrawn, though its front end must overlap therear end of the perforate cover or screen. The pepper is then reversedand shaken, whereupon the chad and unpopped kernels will grav itatethrough the screen, while the popped corn will be retained thereby inthe receptacle, the screen being held closed by the overlapped end ofthe imperforate cover. 'Io open the receptacle, it is only necessary toslide the imperforate cover so that the screen will be free of the same,whereupon by inverting the receptacle said screen will swing to openposition and the popped and separated corn will drop therefrom. It willbe apparent that this device can be manufactured at small cost, and, asshown above, it accomplishes all the objects set forth in thepreliminary portion of the specification.

From the foregoing it is thought that the construction, operation, andmany advantages of the herein-described invention will be apparent tothose skilled in the art without further description, and it will beunderstood that various changes in the size, shape, proportion, andminor details of construction may be resorted to without departing fromthe spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a pepper, a receptacle-body, an inner perforate cover movablymounted on the body and extending but partially across the same, and anouter imperforate cover extending over the inner cover and constitutingmeans for holding said inner cover against movement in one directionupon the body.

2. In a popper, a receptacle, a pivoted cover for the receptacle, and asliding cover for the receptacle, said sliding cover constitutingsecuring means foil holding the pivoted cover against its swingingmovement in one direction.

3. In a popper, a receptacle, a cover constructed of comparatively largemeshnetting pivoted at one end to the receptacle and terminating shortof the other end, and another cover slidably mounted on the upper edgesof the receptacle and movable over the pivoted cover serving to hold thesame against opening when the receptacle is reversed.

4. In a popper, a receptacle, a perforate cover pivoted to thereceptacle and terminating short of one end thereof, and a sliding covermovable over the free end of the pivoted cover to hold said pivotedcover against.

swinging.

5. In a pepper, a receptacle having a handle atone end, and a pivot-rodextending across the other end, said receptacle also having outstandingbeads at its upper side edges, aswinging perforate cover secured at oneend to the pivot-rod, and a slidable cover having inturned flanges atits edges that engage over the beads ofthe receptacle, said cover beingmovable over the perforate cover.

6. In a pepper, the combination with a receptacle having an openportion, of a swinging cover extending over a part of the open portion,and a sliding cover mounted on the receptacle and movable over theremaining part of the open portion not closed by the swinging cover.

7. In combination with the receptacle having an open side, the swingingcover extending over a part of the open side of the receptacle, and asliding cover located in a different plane from the swinging cover, andbeing coextensive with the open side of the receptacle, so as to slideover the swinging cover.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own l have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD H. BARTON. Witnesses C. W. LANNING, GRANT NIBLACK.

